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BraveWords has one of the biggest music collections on the planet, with thousands of items signed. Each week we will showcase the last seven days of birthdays featuring some of the greatest releases in metal history. From August 7th to 13th, the following albums/releases celebrated an anniversary. Click the gallery above to view photos. 

Happy 40th
BLACK SABBATH's Born Again - August 7th, 1983

Tony and Geezer were pub-crawling with Ian Gillan one night and they woke up hungover the next day with the replacement for Dio! 

Geezer told me in 2021: “We all went to a pub in Oxford and got smashed out of our heads! I suppose sometime during the night, we talked about working together and the next day we had found out that Ian Gillan had joined Sabbath. It was until we went on tour. I didn’t think it worked live. I thought the album was good, but somehow the mix was badly done. I thought the songs were good, but the mix wasn’t very good on the album. And on tour, I didn’t think Ian Gillan really fitted Sabbath.” 

Happy 33rd
EXTREME's Extreme II. Pornograffitti (A Funked Up Fairy Tale) - August 7th, 1990

Happy 14th 
BEHEMOTH’s Evangelion – August 7th, 2009

Happy 29th 
APRIL WINE’s Frigate - August 8th, 1994

Happy 28th
BENEDICTION’s The Dreams You Dread - August 8th, 1995

Happy 23rd 
ROB HALFORD’s Resurrection – August 8th, 2000

Happy 17th 
SLAYER's Christ Illusion - August 8th, 2006

Happy 37th 
MOTÖRHEAD's Orgasmatron - August 9th, 1986

Happy 35th 
EUROPE’s Out Of This World - August 9th, 1988

Happy 27th 
THERION's Theli - August 9th, 1996

Happy 36th
LOUDNESS’ Hurricane Eyes - August 10th, 1987

Happy 35th 
WINGER's Winger - August 10th, 1988

Happy 34th 
WHITE LION's Big Game - August 10th, 1989

Happy 24th 
MACHINE HEAD's The Burning Red - August 10th, 1999
DARK TRANQUILLITY’s Projector - August 10th, 1999 
LYNYRD SKYNYRD’s Edge Of Forever - August 10th, 1999 

Happy 6th
VENOM INC. - Avé - August 11th, 2017

Happy 40th
QUEENSRŸCHE’S Queensrÿche (EMI reissue) – August 12th, 1983

Happy 32nd
CORONER’s Mental Vortex - August 12th, 1991

Happy 32nd 
METALLICA's Metallica (The Black Album) - August 12th, 1991

Happy 15th 
EXTREME’s Saudades De Rock – August 12th, 2008

Happy 53rd
IRON BUTTERFLY’s Metamorphosis - August 13th, 1970

Happy 50th 
LYNYRD SKYNYRD's (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd) - August 13th, 1973

Happy 38th
DIO’s Sacred Heart - August 13th, 1985

Happy 36th 
TWISTED SISTER's Love Is For Suckers - August 13th, 1987
Well, we all know what happened after the peak of TWISTED SISTER's Stay Hungry. There was the follow-up, Come Out And Play and Love Is For Suckers which turns 36 today (August 13th, 1987). During an episode of Streaming For Vengeance, we asked Dee Snider about it:

“As you may or may not know, that was supposed to be a solo album,” Snider explained, “and the record company forced the band into the studio. I had moments of inspiration that were supposed to be for my solo record, but Twisted was forced into the studio and we broke up subsequently. I really blame it on the record company, if they’d just let us go our separate ways, cool off a couple years, A. J. (Pero) would do CITIES, I would do solos, the other guys would do whatever they want, and then come back a couple of years later, I think we would have stayed together. For better or for worse, we would have stayed together. Thank you, I’m glad you appreciated that song. ‘Leader Of The Pack’, that was a misstep, but more because it was the wrong time. That song we used to play in the bars, and the fans would love it. It was on our first EP, with ‘Under The Blade’, ‘What You Don’t Know’, ‘Shoot ‘Em Down’, and ‘Leader Of The Pack’, for Secret Records before Under The Blade. So we would play it on tour for Under The Blade and the crowd would love it. So I thought it was a natural thing to bring back and redo, and we thought it was a big hit, but it was too slick, too produced, the video was too cartoonish, It had lost the snottiness of these five guys in drag doing it in a biker bar, which is originally where the inspiration came from, you know, ‘Fuck you, leader of the pack!’. Timing is everything. here have been some missteps and unfortunately this seems to be one of them. Talk about leaving a scar.” 

Happy 27th
VARGA’s Oxygen - August 13, 1996

Happy 13th 
IRON MAIDEN's The Final Frontier - August 13th, 2010